theory of language and literature (EA); world literature (EIF); classical literature (EK, EG, EP); European vernacular literatures: Italian (EN), Spanish and Portuguese (EL), French (EB), Scandinavian (ED), Dutch (EF), English (EM), German (EE), Slavonic and East European (EC).
Medieval and humanistic literature (NA); survival of classical literature (NK); classical and medieval themes in literature (NE); pictorial symbols (NO); encyclopedias (NF); history of the book (NP); history of libraries (NM); manuscripts (NH); printing and illustration (NC); pedagogy (NL); universities (NB); cultural exchange (NI); travel (ND)
Italian literature from Dante to the seventeenth century; Renaissance humanism; poetics, rhetoric; the later influence of classical authors and forms (complementary to the holdings of the Institute of Classical Studies); the survival of classical themes and legends; mythological handbooks; emblem books; the history of European universities and academies; cultural exchange through translation, travel and pilgrimage.